Word: trove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like almost every U.S. community, Lexington (pop. 23,500) is full of skilled specialists and passionate hobbyists. Last year Richard Woodward, 36, director of audio-visual education in Lexington's public schools, decided to find out just how wide and deep the treasure-trove lay. With clerical aid from the League of Women Voters, he mailed out help-wanted appeals to Lexington's 6,800 home addresses. For $186 in postage stamps, he got back a rich haul. Examples...
...travelers who reached it came back with reports of a fabulous treasure-trove of art hidden behind its 50-ft.-thick walls. But no one was allowed to photograph or even to catalogue it. Then last year a team of scholars and technicians, jointly sponsored by Princeton, Michigan, and Alexandria universities, got permission to make the first complete record of Mount Sinai's treasures. This week TIME publishes an unprecedented sampling of the expedition's finds...
Born the son of a German wood carver in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1862, young Maybeck made his way to Paris, studied at the Beaux Arts, developed a deep and abiding love for all the great traditional styles. He treated them as a huge treasure-trove, to be dipped into as the artist's imagination dictated. He returned to the U.S. and moved to San Francisco, where he founded the University of California's architectural department...
Common denominator of this treasure-trove is Gnosticism, a potent heresy of Christianity's early days, which interpreted Jesus' life and teaching as an esoteric message of salvation directed to an elite equipped with secret knowledge. As such, most of the manuscripts are interesting mainly to scholars. But the Gospel of St. Thomas has a special concern and fascination for all Christians, for it is a 3rd or 4th century collection of 114 "sayings of Jesus" that dates back to a Greek manuscript from the first half of the 2nd century-within 50 years of the Gospels themselves...
...they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the roadbed, but their foreman told the story at the sake house that night. Soon a delegate of National Museum curators rushed to the spot-too late. Lost: another priceless trove of Haniwa sculpture, the funerary pottery in the form of warriors, horses, shrine maidens, even ducks, monkeys and chickens found in burial mounds of the 3rd to 7th centuries...